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Notice it was published in 1620.
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What else happened then?
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That's when the Pilgrims came over, right?
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So the title of the book, rather small under his name
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and title as Lord Chancellor of England,
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is Instauratio Magna, which means the Great Restoration.
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Restoration of what? Of the way of knowing.
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A bigger, a part of it, it's called the Novum Organum,
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and it develops the inductive scientific method,
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based on experiment,
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to replace Aristotelian deduction,
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which is you maybe did one experiment sometime,